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This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. 'Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.' Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen's unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque. Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen's voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our guides.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Favourite Game
• Author: Leonard Cohen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780007318391
• ISBN: 0007318391
• ID: 04006917
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 116 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. July 2009

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